To all our current students and new students we welcome you back to our 2018 Fall/Winter Season for tennis at Mills Field - Saint Johns Tennis Academy. Everyone should have received confirmation letters as to their new/old schedules starting up this week and ready to go!

This month our tuition rates will be pro-rated for August due to a 3 week month and then every month after a full tuition due at the first clinic of every month. Please make your checks out to "SJTA".

Very important weeks in our Academy in which we celebrated Wimbledon week , themed with wearing all white, strawberries, serve and volley like they do on grass! Singles and doubles strategies. We also celebrated by participating in USTA Orlando Sectionals tournament and won 2nd place in all of Florida! Go SJTA Ace Breakers who played u14 intermediate which was quite competitive and very close in competition.

We have worked on consistency, shot tolerance and singles strategy in week 1. Shot patterns, serves and returns in week 2. All things short court volley, half volley, overheads and drop shots in week 3. We have more work to cover week 4-7!! More room in our Academy classes for July so please come join us at Creekside High tennis courts to learn and have fun!

Greetings! Now is the time to register for our 7 week summer tennis camp for all ages, all levels of tennis. We will start our camp June 4th. Schedule, rates and material we will cover is on this website. Click on the tab for Summer Tennis Camp. Any question as feel free to call Heather Diegan 904-994-3376

We will hold the upcoming middle school tennis tryouts at Mills Field for Swiss Point Middle School & Liberty Pines Middle School on the following days and times:

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24TH 3:00PM - 4:30PM

AND

FRIDAY, JANUARY 26TH 4:00PM - 5:30PM

Swiss Point and Liberty Pines students may come either day during the stated times above and only need to tryout once. Each school may have multiple teams chosen depending on how many tryout. Please attend whether you are beginner or experienced!

Mandatory Practices to play in matches will begin the week of February 6th for both schools. We will have two practices per week the first two weeks then once a week each week after.

Swiss Point Middle School practices will be Tuesdays/Thursdays 3-4pm the first two weeks, Tuesdays 3-4pm each week and matches played on Thursdays each week.

Liberty Pines Middle School practices will be Wednesdays 3-4pm and Fridays 5-6pm the first two weeks, then each Wednesday 3-4pm practices and matches played on Thursdays each week.

Please call or email If you have ANY questions! Heather Ann Diegan cell 904-994-3376

December 27th - 29th our Academy will be having our annual Christmas Tennis Camp 9-12 pm for 3 days which will include a tournament and pizza party with ornament exchange on the 29th. RSVP to heather.lester@me.com $100 check made out to "SJTA". 16 available spots. Levels intermediate to advanced only!

A weekend for Mali Vai Washington Foundation fundraiser. Our student Allie Bielski represented us at the Gala which brought in a record $310,000.00 of donations. Followed by the Pro Am tournament at San Jose Golf and CC.

All clinics and match play will resume Monday, September 18th at Mills Field. This includes all our programming Ladies FCTA tennis, all juniors and 10& Under programming. Our Junior Team Tennis team match play will begin Friday, September 22nd at 4:30. I will send out emails for match schedules pertaining to USTA JTT.

Students from either school may come to Mills Field during these dates and times to tryout for their school tennis team. Middle School season will begin the week of February 20th - May 5th, 2017.

Tennis tryouts will last for at least 30 - 40 minutes while being evaluated. Students selected for their schools team will receive notice of results the following Friday. You must register online at SJMSAA website as directed from your school in order to tryout and participate on your schools tennis team.

Practices for Swiss Point will be Tuesdays 2:45-3:45pm

Practices for Liberty Pines will be Wednesdays 2:45 - 3:45pm

Match play days will be every Thursday (times vary according to venue played)

This camp is for Academy players intermediate- advanced only. We primarily have high school players. Come Jan 2-4 for a great workout, footwork, strategy and our annual ornament exchange party with pizza!

Saint Johns Tennis Academy entered 8 teams into this weekends USTA Team Tennis Challenge weekend located at Boone Park. We had 4 teams entered in the U14 intermediate and 4 teams entered into the U18 intermediate. I am so very proud of each and every team with high efforts to play their very best tennis and displayed great sportsmanship in every match! I received several compliments from various parents and teams and pros from our local communities.

We had 2 teams come in 1st and 2nd place in our U18 intermediate flight - Team 904 won first place with players Landon Williams, Molly Wannamaker & Lily Thompson. We had 2 teams of ours in the playoffs of U14 intermediate "Team Highlighters" and "Team Uno". Team Uno won 1st place with players Allie Bielski, Carys Cook & Lily Davis.

We had a blast last night with all our students to celebrate Halloween tennis style. We had three contest winners for ; "Wackiest tennis shot"- Sam W., "Best Tweener shot"- Gabe S. , and "Best target serve"- Lily D.. We also had a dog fight in which our winner was Grace W. Pizza, drinks, awards and candy was enjoyed by all. Coaches Patrick Diegan and Heather Lester thank you for coming out to play in our 4th annual Halloween celebration!